Yesterday was our first "big" snow of the season. The kids couldn't wait to get home from school and play in the snow. We were all hoping for a snow day!! I watched Beccy and Kris' kids so they could do some Christmas shopping, so they got to play with Kaleb and Kyson.
Matigan had to eat some snow of course! 
Sledding on our dirt pile! Elliott was a big helper with the other kids!
As some of you may already know, Reese is our daycare provider's (Marge Green) granddaughter who has recently been diagnosed with ALL- acute lymphocytic leukemia, at only 4 months old. The Green's are a wonderful family and we absolutely love Marge as she has taken great care of Kaleb and Kyson since they were babies! Kyle and I grew up and went to school with Marge's kids and my heart goes out to Tony and Kelly as they face a struggle that no parent wants to go through. I admire how strong and positive they have stayed throughout Reese's treatments and hospitalizations. In light of the situation I find myself asking what can I do to help? So...I decided to post the website to Reese's caring bridge page which is found at the bottom of the picture I posted. She also has a fundraising project where you can order a "Rally for Reese" bracelet at http://reeseerlainfoundation.org/contact.aspx For those of you who live in Abilene, the bracelets are also available at Treasures by Tracine. If the bracelet is not your thing, prayer is just as powerful especially for strength during the holidays!!! Reese has a long road ahead of her, but she has shown that she is a fighter!
I think that was a song right?? You never know, my sister and I have this great talent of totally butchering song lyrics! Anyhow we spent some time in the leaves and I thought I would share some pictures with you. Grandpa Becker's yard is always full of leaves during the fall. He will spend an evening mowing and picking up the leaves and the next day I think they are just as bad! He left the boys their pile for a couple of days of fun. Thanks Grandpa!
We of course got to see Paige in her pink and Michael, but not sure who some other people were, but there were cameras on them so I snapped away! The blurry one we thought was possibly Paul?? Not sure about that one!
I'm sure everyone that reads my blog already knows about the Extreme Home Makeover going on in Chapman. I decided I would post some of my pictures that we took the other day when over there watching. I can't believe how fast the house has went up!
Jason Aldean was awesome! I think I knew every one of his songs. A few picks of him and his band members.
Lady Antebellum put on a great show! Hillary Scott their female singer is also the daughter of Linda Davis who sang the duet "Does He Love You" with Reba McEntire.
I'm always the last one to get my blog updated! I told the gals I was going to do favorite quotes of the night, so here it goes.......
"Hey lady the eighties called and they want their lighters back!"-Beccy
"I like songs."-Renae
"I haven't had to show my ID in like 15 years."-Beccy (Beccy is only 32.)
I wish I could remember what the star trek geeks said at IHOP cause that totally would have made my list!
I am sure the guys had some, but not quite as funny as these two! We had a great time!
I got to help with Kaleb's class party at school. It was fun and very active being that 10 of the 13 kids are boys!! Kaleb chose frankenstein pops from the Paula Dean magazine, so I spent my Thursday night making them along with my mother's help, Thanks Mom!
Beccy and I decided to make the kids a spooky supper our menu was spaghetti brains, dog bone breadsticks, candy corn pizza, witch's teeth corn, and for dessert witch's hats, pudding eyeballs, and marshmallow frankensteins left over from Kaleb's party. The kids thought it was great!
We had a great time trick or treating after the kids finally stopped arguing about whose turn it was to ring the doorbell.
I absolutely love this time of year! There are so many fun things to do. We spent Friday in Manahattan at their Homecoming celebration and went "Trick or Treating" in Aggeville, it was a blast! On Saturday we had Sub-state vollebyall, we finished as runner-up unfortunately, but the girls played well. I also ran into two of my old friends that I had not seen or talked to in a few years and they were both pregnant! One with twins! On Sunday we had a cook out for our Church Small Group, it was very cold and windy! But oh so fun!
Today is Kyle's birthday and also his mother's! What a great birthday present, she's been paying for it ever since, HA! Pam surprised him with a cake this morning at work! She makes the absolute best cake, in fact, she also made our wedding cake. This is a hobby of hers that she is really good at. On the cake she wrote Happy Birthday to the "Golden Child's" Brother. It's an inside family joke! Kyle is always complaining that his sister is the golden child. Hope you two have a great birthday! Kyle and I are going with some friends to a concert in Manhattan and his mother and sister are off to New York to celebrate, hope you guys have fun!!
So last night, I decided that it was time for a change, as many of you have already seen me today. I decided to go darker because I needed to cover up some grays and my hair had really faded since I last had it done. Being that we are now on a "budget" I was not willing to spend $70 to get my hair dyed at the salon and did it myself last night. So here's a before and after, my husband of course like me best as a blonde!
Just thought I would post a picture of our Weimar-baby Ruger. We had a litter of puppies the year before last in the fall and it was quite the experience as many of you have heard and shared a part in taking care of 8 puppies! My husband wants to give it another try, but I don't think I'm looking forward to bottle-feeding 8 puppies every 4 hours. I do miss how cute they are though! They boys loved holding them and taking care of them. As you can see Ruger definitely isn't a baby anymore! Kyson tries to ride him like a horse! Our other Weimar is Remmy, she is 4 yrs., we've had her since Kaleb was a baby, she is very protective!
Just thought I would share some awesome pictures of God's creations and remind you all to stop and look around you every now and then. Especially with Fall beginning, I love the changing of colors around us. God is the perfect painter!
